INDIANAPOLIS -- Presuming you’re reading this on a computer or iPad or smartphone, which pretty much covers the gamut of how Internet columns are consumed, take a moment and do a Google search on a young man named “Cornelius Elder.” Go ahead, we’ll wait.

As you can see, just about everything returned extols his gifts as a football player. Look at him here and here. That’s him, No. 15. He does not get tackled a lot.

According to 247 Sports, which ranks him the No. 144 prospect in the nation, Elder has football scholarship offers from Ohio State, Vanderbilt and Cincinnati, and Alabama and Miami are intrigued. So if he were to walk away from basketball next spring after walking across the stage to accept his high school diploma, Elder still would have a significant future in athletics.

But that is not the plan.

Sporting News asked Elder if he has a favorite sport, and he responded succinctly: “Basketball.” We asked if basketball is the sport he plans to pursue at the college level, and brevity reigned, again: “Yes, sir.”

When another reporter asked him to recite the list of schools pursuing him as a point guard, he had slightly more to say: “Um, Western Kentucky, MTSU, uh, College of Charleston, Northeastern and Florida Gulf Coast.”

These are all fine mid-major programs, some of them with distinguished histories and records of recent success. Western Kentucky reached the Final Four in 1971 and the Sweet 16 as recently as ’08. Middle Tennessee State won the most recent Sun Belt Conference regular-season championship. College of Charleston has made four NCAA Tournament appearances.

After watching Elder run the point for Team Nashville at the adidas Invitational tournament, though, it is not easy to reconcile how the list of athletic programs pursuing him as a football star is so much more glamorous than the collection of those who want him for basketball.

OK, so he is 5-10 (maybe), 165 pounds (probably). That’s pretty small. But if Urban Meyer thinks Elder is big enough to cope with 290-pound defensive linemen, it’s a mystery why no basketball coaches at a similar level expect that he can deal with a 6-8 power forward.

“I guess it’s rare to see a 5-10 point guard for a high major,” Elder said, “but hopefully they can see what I can do out here.”

Veteran recruiting analyst Van Coleman, who watched Nashville’s Thursday evening game, marked down Elder as a high-major prospect after noting his vision, quickness, speed and, presumably for a football player, a reasonably high degree of toughness. Following the game, Elder said he must improve his shooting touch.

Elder is a winner, as well. Ensworth, the private school he attends in Nashville, has claimed consecutive Tennessee state championships in both football and basketball. He rushed for 2,072 yards and scored 21 touchdowns as a junior. He scored 21 points and passed for five assists in the ’12 state final against Memphis Briarcrest, which featured top-60 center prospect Austin Nichols.

What makes Elder an extraordinary basketball prospect is the same thing that helps him remain upright on the football field: Vision. With the basketball in his hands, he constantly is aware of where teammates are located and often recognizes before they do that scoring opportunities have developed.

“I’d probably say playing football helps out,” Elder said. “Being a running back, you have to have good vision.”

It’ll be up to major-college scouts to recognize Elder’s ability over the remainder of this month. He’ll finish up his weekend here at the adidas tournament and then be on to the Peach State Summer Showcase in Aiken, S.C., and the Super Showcase and AAU nationals in Orlando.

He already has been named MVP of the Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions and the Wallace Prather Memorial Day Classic. Those weren’t open to college coaches, however. Perhaps they needed to see for themselves.